A few of us said that we had important matters to go back to the county and would come back tomorrow morning. The owner of the hostel saw that there were many people in our group, so he didn't dissuade us too much, just reminded us to pay attention to safety. Several interns brought by Ma Xiwen also asked him why archaeology was carried out secretly at night. He told the four young people who had just stepped out of school that it was because it was a national cultural heritage protection project, and it was impossible to excavate and test it on a large scale, so he had to report to the government after thoroughly determining what was below.

"So what we're doing now doesn't have the government's approval?" A man named Wang Yuesheng raised a question.

"That's our archaeological work! Sometimes we need to be flexible and flexible. Ma Xiwen pretended to be righteous and said, "It must be done to report to the superiors, but this back and forth plus the time to wait for approval is too long, and the work of emergency repair and protection of cultural relics is imminent." If you don't do it first, those tomb robbers will do it first, and you don't know how much damage these cultural relics and ruins will be at that time? The sooner we can act, the lower the losses we can make. This is also a last resort......" Ma Xiwen deliberately sighed. His words really convinced the interns, and no one questioned them anymore.

By the time we arrived at the Dragon Well, the boulder had been completely lifted up by several jacks, and the gap exposed in the middle was enough for one person to enter and exit. A man named Ergou under Pu Yinan's subordinates stepped forward and shone a flashlight at the bottom of the well: "It's black inside, and you can't see anything!" He picked up a rock and threw it into the well, and after a few seconds he heard a dull echo.

"Looks like this well is quite deep!" Ergou sighed and said, "And there is no water yet!" Doesn't it mean that there is water in this well, and it stinks? ”

"Wouldn't it be easier to run out of water? Two dogs and stones, you two go down and explore the road first! Park Il-nam threw a gas mask to Ergou and the man named Stone.

Ergou and Shi put on gas masks, took pickaxes, shovels and other tools and slipped down the rope into the well. After a while, they came from below, saying that the well was full of green bricks, and there was no entrance to the underground palace at all.

At this time, Situ Feng picked up a gas mask and said, "I'll go down and have a look!" ”

As a result, he went down for less than twenty minutes before he found the entrance to the dungeon.

Park Yifan said triumphantly: "Mr. Situ was hired by me with a high salary!" What do you think? Is it worth the money? ”

Then, the rest of us put on gas masks and followed the rope to the bottom of the well. Only Huzi and a bodyguard named Cheng Siyuan were left on it.

When I got to the bottom of the well, I saw that the green bricks that had blocked the hole had fallen, revealing a hole about one meter in diameter. Looking at the green bricks all over the ground, Pu Yifan asked Situ Feng: "How did you find this mechanism?" ”

Situ Feng smiled slightly and said, "There's no mechanism!" Just knock with your hands, and after hearing that the sound here is different, let the two dogs and them pick up the green bricks. ”

While he was talking, Park Yinan took Ergou and Shi Shi into the cave first. followed by Ma Xiwen and four interns, followed by Xu Yunshu and Tanzi, and then Pu Yifan, Situ Feng and the remaining three bodyguards named Zhang Xiangui, Lu Mingsheng and Jin Daquan.

The cave was small at first, allowing only people to crawl in, but as it progressed deeper, it was gradually able to bend over and stand, but it was still not tall enough to stand upright. After walking for a short time, only about five or six minutes, I came to the end of the cave. Park Il-nam knocked on the wall blocked in front of him with a pickaxe, and when he heard the sound of "empty" inside, he told everyone to retreat, and then picked up the pickaxe himself and planed it.

The wall was actually not very thick, and Park Yinan cut a hole in the blue brick wall in a few clicks, and a gust of wind immediately blew in.

"Windy?" Ma Xiwen was stunned for a moment, "It seems that it is not a completely confined space inside." ”

After Park Yinan, Ergou and others completely opened the road, all the people climbed out of the hole.

At this time, two stone doors with a height of nearly 3 meters appeared in front of us.

Seeing these two stone doors, the corners of Pu Yifan's mouth showed a smile. It seems that the clues pointed to on the map are indeed true, and there is indeed a dungeon here. Park Yinan took a few of his subordinates and called those interns to work together, wanting to push the stone door open. But no matter how hard they tried, the stone gate would not move.

Situ Feng stepped forward, illuminated it with a flashlight, looked inside through the crack in the stone door, turned around and said to a few of them: "You don't have to work in vain, there are running stones inside, let alone a few of you, even if so many people come again, they can't open these two doors." ”

Hearing that there was a tap stone inside, Ma Xiwen also stepped forward to take a look, came back and nodded and said, "It is indeed a tap stone inside." ”

Park Yifan said with a worried face: "What can I do about this? If this door can't be opened, will it have to be blown up with explosives? I'm going to have someone look for some explosives! ”

Ma Xiwen shook his head and said, "Explosives must not be used here." First, the movement is too big, once it is used, I am afraid that the whole village will know what we are busy with here; The second is that it is too dangerous, we are now underground, if we use explosives, it may cause a landslide, in this case, we will all explain here. ”

"So what do you say?" Pu Yifan was a little anxious, seeing that he was all in front of him, but he couldn't get in, could he not be in a hurry?

"Don't worry!" Ma Xiwen said with a smile, "We are professional archaeologists, can we have these preparations?" He turned his head and explained to Wang Yuesheng: "Yuesheng, you take out the crutches in the tool bag where the Luoyang shovel is placed." ”

"Crutches? What is that? "Jar and I have never heard of this thing.

At this time, I saw Wang Yuesheng take out a metal utensil with a long handle at one end and a half-circle at the other, which felt like a tool used to fork people's necks and subdue murderers.

Xu Yunshu saw that Tan Zi and I were confused, so she explained to the two of us in a whisper.

"This thing is called a crutch, and it is a tool specially used to crack the tap stone." Xu Yunshu said, "The tap stone is actually a kind of latch used to resist the tomb door, and its principle is to chisel a bulge in the middle of the two doors in the door, and then dig a pit on the ground not far away from the door crack. In this way, it is difficult to open the tomb door, no matter how much force is used outside. ”

"It's a goalpost!" The jar showed a sudden realization.

"You can say the same thing." Xu Yunshu said, "There are many imperial tombs that use this kind of tap stone to hold up the tomb door. ”